Job searches
Confirm Career Memory and searches can start from your tracks. Discovery keeps running — assisted prepare when you want help, manual apply when you want full control.
From Career Memory, not a blank filter form
Confirm tracks during onboarding and up to three searches can bootstrap from that memory. You can still add titles, locations, remote preference, experience range, salary floor, keywords, and exclusions. The point is you should not retype the same filters every Sunday.
Matches are scored with a WHY. Sources are documented on ATS job search.
A search, field by field
Concretely: a search built from a "Senior Backend Engineer" track might carry titles like "Senior Software Engineer, Backend" and "Staff Backend Engineer" (tracks intentionally bootstrap a couple of adjacent titles, not just the exact string), a remote preference, a $180k salary floor, keywords like "Go" or "distributed systems," and an exclusion list for company names you've already ruled out. That criteria set is what discovery runs continuously against the ATS catalog — you set it once and refine it as matches teach you what "good" actually looks like for this track.
For the decision between letting MyCareerAtlas prepare applications from that search versus applying to every match yourself, and for how that choice compares to automation tools that skip the approval step entirely, see job search automation.
Manual or assisted
Pick manual when you want to browse and apply yourself with the extension. Pick assisted when you want MyCareerAtlas to discover matches, prepare applications, and queue them for your approval. Neither mode silent-submits. See Assisted Auto Apply.
Daily return, not an overflowing inbox
A daily matches surface is capped and limited to recent listings so you can come back tomorrow. Recommended excludes roles you already applied to or rejected. Stale catalog jobs (not seen in 14 days) stay out.
When the feed is empty
Discovery status on searches and jobs shows whether boards and the worker are producing results. An unseeded board directory will not invent jobs. Open a posting with the extension if you already found one by hand.
Frequently asked questions
- What can I put in a job search?
- Titles, locations, remote preference, experience range, minimum salary, keywords, and exclusions — the criteria used for discovery and matching.
- How do searches get created?
- After you confirm Career Memory, up to three job searches can start from your target tracks. You can also create searches yourself.
- What is apply mode?
- Manual: you apply yourself (extension and Career Tickets help). Assisted: MyCareerAtlas prepares matching applications and waits for your approval before submit.
- Where do matches come from?
- Curated Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and Workday boards, plus LinkedIn jobs ingested when you open them. Recommended excludes applied and rejected roles. Stale listings (not seen in 14 days) stay out of feeds.
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Create your first search
Start free, save criteria, and choose manual or assisted apply mode.